Biography of Grigory Gurvich

They lived in the so -called house of the Central Committee, opposite the Institute of Political Science. His father, Efim Grigoryevich Gurvich, managed the Azerbaijani Telegraph Agency of Azerinform, was a deputy of the Supreme Council of Azerbaijan, a member of the Central Committee, Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Union of Journalists of Azerbaijan, Laureate of the Golden Feather Award.

The only son of Efim Grigoryevich, Grisha Gurvich, was born in Baku on October 24, graduated from school N, and then the Philfak of Baku State University. From Baku, G. to live and work remained in Moscow, but every summer he invariably rested with his wife and her relatives at the dacha of his father in Zagulbe. The last time the city of childhood, Gurvich visited the anniversary of his father’s death after the tragedy, and the death of G.

Gurvich really became a tragedy for everyone who knew the Gurvich and Grishi personally called and expressed their condolences to them. Abram Grigoryevich Gurvich, retired colonel, a participant in the war, who worked for more than the years in the authorities of military justice and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, tells the details of the "Baku period" Grigory Gurvich.

Often he attended the performances of the Russian Drama Theater with his parents, organized his own theater circle, where he played and wrote scripts. In the school years, the boy was interested in not only theatrical productions. Already in the classroom, he began to study English on his own and so succeeded in it that his grandfather on his mother is a tooth doctor Lev Vasilievich Shik, who had a good English, even talked with his grandson in this language.

Lev Vasilievich composed poems and loved to read them, and when Grisha also began to indulge in the high school, grandson and grandfather often competed in this. Once during the school holidays, they went by train to Moscow - the grandfather wanted to show the grandson of the sights of the then great capital of the USSR. At the station, Lev Vasilievich and Grisha agreed that only quatrains would be spoke all the way.

As they agreed, they did it. Relatives then realized that an unusual child was growing in their family. Another time, Grisha went on vacation to Moscow with his grandfather and his cousin, daughter of Abram Grigoryevich. All the holidays, together with his grandfather, visited theaters. In general, if Grisha came to Moscow for 10 days, then he managed to visit at least at the TI performances - he went to evening and daytime sessions.

He was in love with the theater and called himself jokingly "a master of excess ticket." Abram Grigorievich recalled the case confirming this nickname. Once, having arrived in Moscow, Grisha’s relatives of six people wanted to see the performance, but could not get tickets. Grisha could he miss a trip to the theater! After a while, he really brought exactly six tickets.

It is not surprising that at the end of the school, Grisha, the father of Grisha wanted his only son to first receive a “serious” higher education, and then follow his creative calling. Grisha obeyed his parents, entered the Faculty of Philology of the University, having graduated with honors that he had gone to Moscow, where he was immediately admitted to GITIS.

Gurvich studied the art of the director in the workshop of Maria Knebel - a student of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich -Danchenko. Grisha idolized his teacher, and she greatly appreciated the talented student from Baku. In the theater and outside it [edit] artistic director of the theater. Mayakovsky Andrei Goncharov noted G. It seemed that everything went well, but after the conflict with the wife of Goncharov, who was actively interfering with the activities of the theater, Grisha Gurvich theater left.

This "stagnation" lasted several months. Grisha’s wife - Lyuba Shapiro is also a GITIS graduate, they got married back in his student years to somehow provide a family at that difficult time, gave private English lessons. And when Grigory Gurvich was already completely convinced that the Mayakovsky Theater was far in the past, the unexpected call of the head of the literary part of the theater returned everything to his own circles.

We are looking for you, Goncharov is looking for you. Come to the theater! Grisha returned. Goncharov gave Gurvich the opportunity to independently put a performance. Grigory Gurvich successfully combined work in the theater with the production of cabbage, writing scenarios for example, for the transfer of Marusev "Horoscope". Later, he himself will come to work on television: first in the "Time", and then in his "old apartment" - it will have a tremendous success.

Once, on one of the "Kaputnikov", the director of Lenkoma Mark Zakharov approached Gurvich and advised organizing his own theater. Grisha Gurvich created the Bat Theater in the image and likeness of the "cabaret Theater of the same name, which functioned in Moscow before the arrival of Soviet power. It was not easy to create a theater with a troupe of 85 people and even in the basement, which previously had to be overhaul.

I had to walk around the authorities for a long time, but the assertiveness, determination and sense of humor Gurvich did their job. The theater’s performances went with the Angels, often for the lack of spectator places, people had to stand along the wall.The theater artists loved their leader very much. All: both those who were older, and those who were younger than Gurvich called him affectionately "Grishenka".

G. Gurvich’s mother recalled that at the time when the theater experienced financial difficulties, when there was no money even for paying salaries, Grisha agreed with his acquaintances, among whom, by the way, there were many Bakuns, and vegetables, canned food, and soups were brought to the theater. He distributed all this to the artists. The nanny Nastya [edit] both the father and mother of Grigory Gurvich were very busy people: the father headed Azerinform, the mother, the candidate of biological sciences of May Lvovna, taught at the Faculty of Faculty of University.

Therefore, when Grisha went to school, Nastya appeared in the house - Molokanka from a small village of Gobustust district. Nastya's duties included household chores and supervision of Grisha. They say that Grisha Gurvich was complete, Nastya was to blame, which overlapped him since childhood. Nastya lived in the Gurvich family for many years, even when Grisha already lived and worked in Moscow.

After the death of E. Gurvich, when Grisha’s mother decided to move to Moscow, closer to her son, Nastya returned to her Gobustan district. Once, Nastya came to Grisha’s relatives who remained in Baku and complained that she really needed - her pension was enough only for firewood and payment of electricity, but there was no money left for food. Relatives wrote about this to May Lvovna, and she told Grisha.

A year after this incident, Nastya, while traveling in Moscow, met with her pupil. They say that Grisha Gurvich dedicated these few days to his nanny, and escorting, he gave her two suitcases with things and money in addition. May Lvovna, having come to relatives in Baku, even jokingly complained that at that moment Grisha “confused”, who his mother was or Nastya. The favorite of girls and Balagur [edit] in his interview, Grigory Gurvich often said that he preferred the profession of acting director because he considers himself ugly.

But Abram Grigoryevich in our conversation recalled that during the years of Grishina’s youth, his daughter’s girlfriends often fell in love with Grisha. As soon as he came to visit a cousin, whispering began among her friends immediately, and after his departure, the girls together tried to find out his phone from his sister. At the festive table, Grisha Gurvich really liked to pronounce toasts.

He was taught by his father, who loved the feast and a good company. Who just has not been to the Gurvich’s apartment in Baku! On the walls of their apartments hung posters with autographs of the most famous guests: Arkady Raikin, artistic director of the Maintenance theater M. Efremova, Doctor of Philosophy V. Wulf "Silver Ball". Grisha's father collected a large collection of bottles with a variety of alcohol, which he brought from business trips to all countries of the world as souvenirs.

After his death, the collection went to Grisha. But he was not an ardent collector - the work did not leave time for any hobby. Although, perhaps, his gourmet known to everyone was a kind of hobby. They say that returning from the theater late at night, he liked to have dinner tightly, and then sat down to write. Sometimes in the middle of the night Leonid Yakubovich could call and come.

As a true eastern man, Gurvich loved to play backgammon, taught this game all his friends and acquaintances, but only Yakubovich could add to. Their "battles" in backgammon could sometimes last several hours. The work and again work [edit] but still G. Gurvich gave the main time to the work. The beloved "old apartment" was broadcast weekly. Gurvich wrote scripts for new performances and put them in his theater.

And how many scripts, humorous monologues for artists he wrote for his not so long life! According to relatives, Grisha Gurvich wrote even in a hospital in Jerusalem, between the sessions of chemotherapy. Perhaps he simply could not without work, but maybe so he fought for his life. And he almost “conquered” himself to the merciless leukemia, but at the last moment, Grigory Gurvich could not stand his heart on November 5 of the year.

Close Grisha Gurvich, everyone who knew him could not believe what had happened. According to Abram Grigoryevich, neither in the family of the Gurvichs, nor Shik, no one had ever sung cancer, and this disease could not inherit. Nobody was waiting for this insidious disease. "Satir writer Grigory Gorin, speaking of his namesake Gurvich, compared him to Moliere. Both the other had his own theater, both wrote scripts themselves, put their performances and played them.

And who knows what other new abilities and opportunities are found in Grisha Gurvich, he lives longer.